
cloudonaut
We are two brothers focusing 100% on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Every other week, one of us prepares the topic of the podcast. The topic is not known to the other one, which results in surprising conversations about all things AWS.
Typically, we are covering the following topics: DevOps, Serverless, Container, Security, Infrastructure as Code, Container, Continuous Deployment, S3, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM, VPC, and many more.
Latest episodes

Oct 10, 2022 • 53min
#53 [Hot off the Cloud] Monitor VPC Network Address Usage + Aurora Serverless v2 + AWS IQ
Weekly show about all things AWS by Andreas and Michael Wittig
Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.
AWS News: Our thoughts on AWS's recent announcement.
Lessons Learned: What we learned while building on AWS.
#askcloudonaut: Ask us anything. Use the chat during the live stream or send in your questions in advance.
Links
Review: Aurora Serverless v2
AWS Security Primer
Security Iceberg: AWS Security Hub the right way
Looking for a new job?
Cloud Consultant • AWS Serverless Development • tecRacer
Cloud Solutions Architect AWS • DEMICON
Support us!
Our work on cloudonaut is possible only because of your support. Therefore, we want to thank our supporters! With your help, we can continue to produce independent & high-quality content focused on AWS. If you are not already doing so, please consider supporting us with a one-time or recurring donation as well.
https://cloudonaut.io/support-us/

Oct 4, 2022 • 40min
#52 [Hot off the Cloud] Amazon File Cache + EBS Snapshots Archive + EC2 Auto Recovery
Two brothers discussing all things AWS every week. Hosted by Andreas and Michael Wittig presented by cloudonaut.
AWS News: Our thoughts on AWS's recent announcement.
Lessons Learned: What we learned while building on AWS.
#askcloudonaut: Ask us anything. Use the chat during the live stream or send in your questions in advance.
Looking for a new job?
Cloud Consultant • AWS DevOps • tecRacer
Senior Lead Full Stack Developer • DEMICON
Support us!
Our work on cloudonaut is possible only because of your support. Therefore, we want to thank our supporters! With your help, we can continue to produce independent & high-quality content focused on AWS. If you are not already doing so, please consider supporting us with a one-time or recurring donation as well.
https://cloudonaut.io/support-us/

Sep 28, 2022 • 46min
#51 AWS-to-go Vol. 4: Programming your infrastructure
Programming your infrastructure: The command-line, SDKs, and CloudFormation
AWS-to-go is a new series from the authors of the successful book Amazon Web Services in Action. Steffen is our special guest and an AWS beginner overwhelmed by all the services and features AWS offers, but Andreas is ready to help, and together they explore AWS from start to finish.
The 4th episode of the AWS-to-go series covers chapter #4 of the book: Andreas explains how to program your infrastructure with the help of the command line (CLI), SDKs and CloudFormation.
Jobs
Cloud Consultant AWS DevOps • tecRacer
Cloud Solutions Architect AWS • DEMICON
Book: AWS in Action
Get your copy of the book Amazon Web Services in Action and follow along with this and future episodes. https://www.manning.com/books/amazon-web-services-in-action-third-edition
Support us
Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. https://cloudonaut.io/support-us/

Sep 21, 2022 • 47min
#50 AWS-to-go Vol. 3: Using Virtual Machines EC2
Using Virtual Machines: EC2
AWS-to-go is a new series from the authors of the successful book Amazon Web Services in Action. Steffen is our special guest and an AWS beginner overwhelmed by all the services and features AWS offers, but Andreas is ready to help, and together they explore AWS from start to finish.
The 3rd episode of the AWS-to-go series covers chapter #3 of the book: Andreas explains how to launch a virtual machine with EC2.
Jobs
Cloud Consultant AWS Serverless Development • tecRacer
Cloud Solutions Architect AWS • DEMICON
Book: AWS in Action
Get your copy of the book Amazon Web Services in Action and follow along with this and future episodes. https://www.manning.com/books/amazon-web-services-in-action-third-edition
Support us
Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. https://cloudonaut.io/support-us/

Aug 11, 2022 • 33min
#49 AWS-to-go Vol. 2: WordPress in Fifteen Minutes - an Example
WordPress in Fifteen Minutes - an Example
AWS-to-go is a new series from the authors of the successful book Amazon Web Services in Action. Steffen is our special guest and an AWS beginner overwhelmed by all the services and features AWS offers, but Andreas is ready to help, and together they explore AWS from start to finish.
The 2nd episode of the AWS-to-go series covers chapter #2 of the book: Andreas raves about Infrastructure as Code to deploy WordPress on AWS.
Get your copy of the book Amazon Web Services in Action and follow along with this and future episodes. https://www.manning.com/books/amazon-web-services-in-action-third-edition
Support us
Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. https://cloudonaut.io/support-us/

Jul 6, 2022 • 47min
#48 AWS-to-go Vol. 1: What's Amazon Web Services?
What's Amazon Web Services?
AWS-to-go is a new series from the authors of the successful book Amazon Web Services in Action. Steffen is our special guest and an AWS beginner overwhelmed by all the services and features AWS offers, but Andreas is ready to help, and together they explore AWS from start to finish.
The 1st episode of the AWS-to-go series covers chapter #1 of the book: Andreas introduces cloud computing and AWS.
Get your copy of the book Amazon Web Services in Action and follow along with this and future episodes. https://www.manning.com/books/amazon-web-services-in-action-third-edition
Support us
Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you. https://cloudonaut.io/support-us/

Jun 29, 2022 • 40min
#47 Builder's Diary Vol. 1: Successful Cloud Migrations
Successful Cloud Migrations with Monika Oblonczek from tecRacer
Get insights into the day-to-day challenges of builders. In this issue, Monika Oblonczek from our partner tecRacer talks about how cloud migrations succeed. Monika's career is very exciting as she transitioned from legal linguistics into cloud computing. Besides that, Monika shares her knowledge about migration projects.
Would you like to join Monika's team to accompany cloud migrations of SMB and Enterprise customers? tecRacer is hiring Cloud Migration Specialists.
Apply now!

May 4, 2022 • 24min
#46 Review: Aurora Serverless v2
A relational database with scalable storage and compute layer: Aurora Serverless v2
Notes
Review: Aurora Serverless v2 (Blog)
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is Generally Available
RDS Proxy
Jobs (Sponsored)
Are you looking for a new job? Check out the open positions from our sponsors and apply!
Cloud Consultant (tecRacer)
Cloud Migration Specialist (tecRacer)
Newsletter
Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications.
Subscribe to our newsletter for free!
Support us
We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you.
Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you.
Support us!
Feedback
We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

Apr 28, 2022 • 39min
#45 The AWS Cookbook
John Culkin and Mike Zazon share powerful recipes to spice up AWS.
Notes
Andreas invited John Culkin and Mike Zazon to talk about their latest book: the AWS Cookbook which includes 70 self-contained recipes to help you creatively solve common AWS challenges you'll encounter on your cloud journey.
During the show John and Mike share three of their recipes for free. Besides the audio-version, check out the text and code snippets as well.
Testing IAM Policies with the IAM Policy Simulator
Automatically Scanning Images in ECR for Security
Redacting PII from text using Amazon Comprehend
Where to get the book?
Get the whole book with 70 self-contained recipes!
AWS Cookbook (Amazon)
AWS Cookbook (O'Reilly
Newsletter
Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications.
Subscribe to our newsletter for free!
Support us
We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you.
Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you.
Support us!
Feedback
We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.

Feb 15, 2022 • 53min
#44 AWS Security: Stephen Kuenzli and Andreas Wittig on IAM
AWS IAM real-world advice from Stephen Kuenzli and Andreas Wittig
Notes
Stephen Kuenzli and I lead several cloud migration projects. In this conversation, we shared our learnings focusing on AWS security and IAM (Identity and Access Management). The result is advice and inspiration that will help you in your daily work. Our conversation is available as a video or podcast episode. In the following, you will also find a summary of our discussion.
As Michael is on parental leave, I invited Stephen to the cloudonaut podcast. Listen to our conversation on AWS security and IAM. Stephen has written a book for engineers who design, develop, and review AWS IAM security policies in their daily work: Effective IAM for Amazon Web Services. Besides that, Stephen is the founder of k9 Security with the mission to help organizations use the Cloud to improve security and manage risks to the organization and its customers.
Check out the blog post for details and links: AWS Security: Stephen Kuenzli and Andreas Wittig on IAM
Newsletter
Every week, we write about all things AWS. For example, we unbox or review new AWS services. We also share pitfalls that we learned about the hard way ourselves. On top of that, we provide code examples for Infrastructure as Code and Serverless applications.
Subscribe to our newsletter for free!
Support us
We launched cloudonaut.io in 2015. Since then, we have published hundreds of articles, podcast episodes, and videos. It's all free and means a lot of work in our spare time. We enjoy sharing our AWS knowledge with you.
Have you learned something new by reading, listening, or watching our content? If so, we kindly ask you to support us in producing high-quality & independent AWS content. We look forward to sharing our AWS knowledge with you.
Support us!
Feedback
We ask for feedback! Please rate or review our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Or send us a message via Twitter (Andreas and Michael) or LinkedIn (Andreas and Michael) or send us an email.
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